Websites: Teaching Resources on the Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - https://www.ushmm.org/educators
The USHMM provides Holocaust education resources tailored for classroom use—films, lesson plans, oral testimonies, artifacts, and curricular materials. In addition, there is guidance on sound teaching strategies and information about professional development opportunities.
Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center - https://www.yadvashem.org/education.html
The International School for Holocaust Studies produces educational materials for a variety of target populations and educational organizations in Israel and abroad. These materials are written according to Yad Vashem’s Pedagogical Philosophy, which stresses an age-appropriate, multi-disciplinary approach to Holocaust education.
Holocaust Teaching Resources; Echoes and Reflections -
http://echoesandreflections.org/teach/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=holocaust%20teaching&utm_campaign=Holocaust
Echos and Reflections is a comprehensive library of Holocaust content for educators that is classroom-ready and prepared with today's students and classrooms in mind. This allows educators to leverage a variety of ways to examine critical themes of the Holocaust.
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation - http://www.jewishpartisans.org/
The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation is considered to be the largest online resource for information on the Jewish partisans. The site’s materials are available free of charge, geared toward grades 7-12, and may be accessed directly from the classroom. Teachers and students can download study guides, watch personal testimonies, and explore a 3-D version of a partisan bunker and more.
Facing History and Ourselves - https://www.facinghistory.org/
Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to racism, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry and hate. It offers extensive resources on teaching the Holocaust.
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust - https://mjhnyc.org/
The Museum of Jewish Heritage offers extensive resources about teaching about Jewish life and heritage before, during, and after the Holocaust.
The National WWII Museum (New Orleans) - https://www.nationalww2museum.org/
The National WWII Museum's online platform provides readings, Reading, documents, oral testimony with survivors and liberators.
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center - http://www.holocaust-trc.org/
The Holocaust Teacher Resource Center (TRC) website is dedicated to the memory of the six million Jewish people slaughtered during the Holocaust and the millions other people slaughtered during the Nazi era. It strives to combat prejudice and bigotry by transforming the horrors of the Holocaust into positive lessons to help make this a better and safer world for everybody.
Centropa - https://www.centropa.org/en/lesson-plans
Since 2000, Centropa has interviewed more than 1,250 elderly Jews still living in the 15 countries between the Baltic and the Aegean (from Estonia and Russia to Greece and Turkey). The interviews are audio taped, transcribed, translated, and entered into a searchable, keyword online database ‘Jewish Witness to a European Century’.
USC Shoah Foundation - https://sfi.usc.edu/
The USC Shoah Foundation is dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides a compelling voice for education and action.
Jewish Museum Berlin - https://www.jmberlin.de/en
The Jewish Museum Berlin provides archival documents (1933-1945) with lessons in English.
Leo Baeck Institute - https://www.lbi.org
Leo Baeck Institute is an archive and research library devoted to the history and culture of German-speaking Jews.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - https://www.yivo.org/
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to fostering knowledge of the ongoing story of Jewish life, with a focus on the history and culture of East European Jewry—the ancestry of a significant proportion of Jews in the world today.
Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is a collection of recorded interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Educational Trust https://www.het.org.uk/
The Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) based in London provides resources is to "educate young people of every background about the Holocaust and the important lessons to be learned for today.
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust - https://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/resource.htm
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust includes documents, gallery, glossary, maps, movies, bibliographies, videography, websites, and more.
A People’s History of the Holocaust and Genocide - http://remember.org/
A People's History of the Holocaust and Genocide includes photos, art, survivor stories and educational resources including lesson plans.
The Scholastic Holocaust Reader and Guide - http://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/Landing-Pages/holocaustteacher
The Scholastic Holocaust Reader and Gudide provides teaching materials to include with a the recent publication by Scholastic of a Holocaust reader geared for grades 7 – 10.
The Learning Network: Teaching & Learning with the New York Times -
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/the-holocaust/
The Learning Network, a resource of the New York Times includes lesson plans and selected Historical Times Articles on the Holocaust.
Museum of Tolerance - https://www.museumoftolerance.com/education/teacher-resources/
The Museum of Tolerance provides information to assist teachers in teaching about the Holocaust including helpful tips, 36 questions, and reference materials. It has particularly excellent resources on children of the Holocaust.
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation - https://www.raoulwallenberg.net/
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation’s mission is to develop educational programs and public awareness campaigns based on the values of solidarity and civic courage, ethical cornerstones of the saviors of the Holocaust. There are teacher and student resources on rescuers/upstanders during the Holocaust.
